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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Alan Tyers
Match of the Day began with footage of some of his greatest footballing moments, goals for Leicester, for Everton, for Barcelona, and finally his head back, arms aloft delight after equalising against West Germany in 1990. It ended with a ten-minute package in which Gary Lineker’s friends and colleagues paid fulsome tributes.
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1 week ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers
So a lovely, uncomplicated farewell to a treasured broadcaster, right? Well, no. There was something that didn't feel right, something elephanty in the room, and we're not talking about his ears. Lineker's opening gambit communicated that this might not to be an uncomplicated or uncompromised celebration, and he conveyed this with his trademark gentle humour: "It wasn't meant to end this way...
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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers
Ageing greats making mischief at Goodison, a wholesome family affair for Care, and one more Vardy goal all made for poignant viewingA weekend of farewells and retirement parties - for Danny Care, Jamie Vardy and Goodison Park.
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2 weeks ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Alan Tyers
A weekend of farewells and retirement parties – for Danny Care, Jamie Vardy and Goodison Park. It is too soon to say if Gary Lineker will get a lovingly engraved carriage clock or an unceremonious ejection at the hands of a burly BBC security guard, but it was nice to have almost one full day without the former Queen Mum of Football monopolising the sports news headlines.
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3 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers
Look, we all admire Gary Neville's punchy passion and Roy Keane's fire and brimstone, but it can all get a bit much. It can feel like you have tuned in for three hours of being shouted at. That has its place, but how much Manchester United-related rage can you really handle before it gets repetitive? The football is the vanguard but it has been another big year for TNT more broadly.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers
A few days ago, Ofcom received over a hundred complaints about TNT's broadcast of a Manchester United European win which saw Robbie Savage and Rio Ferdinand put the final nails in the coffin of the hopelessly fogeyish idea that sports commentators should be, or at least should try to appear to be, neutral.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers
This writer once spent an evening in a snooker hall in King's Cross with O'Sullivan and White for some joint interview caper or other, and very enjoyable it was too. White, as we bade farewell, pulled me aside with a hushed offer of an intense-sounding side quest teased with the following cryptic clue: "a mate of ours is in prison because the government's put the bad arm on him" (no, not sure) "so we need someone from a proper paper to write something".
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers
He had a hugely relatable backstory about his mum and dad working factory night shifts, three jobs, sacrificing everything to give their only child his start, brilliantly sold in that superb Nike TV advert alongside Tiger Woods. He puts me in mind of Wayne Rooney and Sir Andy Murray in that he has simultaneously achieved an enormous amount but critics had nevertheless felt the right to damn him with faint praise or claim that he should have won more.
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2 months ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers
One defers to the experts when they say that fings ain't what they used to be, so it was lucky for racing that the Mullins father-and-son story provided a much better narrative than yet another routine win for the Closutton superpower. ITV's coverage on Saturday began with Brough Scott setting the scene and saying, don't worry about what it once was, celebrate it for what it is today. And the commentary of the race itself remains as it always has been: a complete nightmare.
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2 months ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers
On BBC1 at the same time, Women's Super League football as Manchester City played Chelsea. What can you really say? It is good that it exists. It is right that it's on the national broadcaster. You do not have to watch it. The player who scored City's opener, a dribbling shot from inside the box that the keeper watched roll across the line, marked the moment with her take on Cristiano Ronaldo's famous (famously annoying) leap and wide leg plant "Siu!" celebration.
